Boy Interrupted

The film Boy Interrupted focuses on the intimate story of Evan Harris, which suffers from bipolar disease. His parents, Hart and Dana, which record Evan’s marked change in attitude, and his maniac cycles, created the film. I personally find very intriguing how they mentioned Evan’s degree of happiness equaled his intensity of anger or sadness. In the film you can see how the nuclear family like his stepbrother and parents struggle with the severe mood swings and tried to help him grip the illness. I believe taking Evan to the medical institute which treated bipolar was a smart choice because sometimes something so delicate needs to be supervised by medical figures. I also find very interesting how even though Evan was receiving medical treatment and visiting a psychiatrists and was achieving good grades in New York and even won the Science fair, inside he was falling apart. I believe to a certain point there is not much the parents and family can do because like Evan he kept his feelings to himself and only recorded his true emotions in his diary. The way even died I believe was very tragic and the fact that he had a prior argument with his mom, probably makes Dana feel guilty. Though I believe it was no one’s fault and Evan was aware he was going to have to dealt with that interior struggle all his life and wanted to put an end to the suffering. In the funeral it was very hard watching all the family crumble apart and special the grandmother, which felt she was living the story of her bipolar son once again. I believe for Evan’s family communication should be very important and the escape of all sadness and guilt. I believe Evan’s story should be a lessons and warning for all those family’s dealing with members, which suffer from bipolar, Evan’s story should embrace the need of medical help and the fact that his decision to end with his life was not fully controlled by him but by his disorder. Boy Interrupted truly portrays the struggle of the Perry’s family and their love towards Evan.